少量

shǎo liàng

HSK 3.0 Level 4 Adjective Uncommon

Definitions

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great amount

Means 'a large amount' or 'a lot', opposite in quantity to 少量.

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a smidgen

Means 'trace amount', indicating an even smaller quantity than 少量.

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a little

Used in similar contexts to mean 'a little bit', but 少许 is more literary and formal.

Typically modifies nouns like 盐 (salt), 水 (water), or abstract terms like 信息 (information), but not usually people or countable individuals.

少量 is more formal than 一点儿 and is commonly used in written or technical contexts to describe small quantities.

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汤里需要加少量的盐。

You need to add a small amount of salt to the soup.

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few

young

to measure

capacity